Superbad Review/Love Fest.

Yep, I just gave Superbad 5 stars. Wanna know why I did such a thing? I fucking love this movie. I don't know if there's a person in this world that has as much of raging boner for this movie as I do. I mean, there's a fucking Bad Religion poster just randomly placed in this movie. HOW COULD I NOT LOVE IT?!!?!

See, I told you so.

So what can I say about this movie? First of all, it's up there for me as one of the best comedy films I have ever seen. I know a lot of people would say that's a bold statement and that I'm overrating the fuck out of this movie, but suck it. This is my review and I can say whatever the fuck I please. Second of all, it spawned my love for Emma Stone...oh how I love her so much.

"Bobby, will you marry me?!"

So yeah, she's pretty great. Another thing about this movie is that it's one of the few movies where Michael Cera doesn't annoy the hell out of me. Don't get me wrong, he's by no way the best part of this movie. He's actually kinda just there for me when it comes to this movie, which is better than some of the other things he has been in. I'd say the highlight of this movie has to be Seth Rogen and Bill Hader.

Seriously...so fucking good.

This movie is actually pretty heart warming when you sit back and think about it. It's a story about two best friends who are going to pretty much "break up" due to going to different schools. They're both growing up, finding their first real loves, and all that sappy shit. Which leads to absolute chaos, in the most amazing way possible. Did I mention dick pictures?! THERE ARE PLENTY OF THOSE!!

Yep.

Basically what this movie comes down to for me is this: friends growing up and trying to go from High School to being adults. Add a bunch of hilarious moments, and you get a really great movie. I would like to point out that Michael Cera's character is a way better man than I ever will be. When that Becca chick offers to give him the best blow j ever...and he turns it down because she's drunk...yeah. Don't know if I could have turned that one down.

On second thought..I know I couldn't turn that down.

Jonah Hill is great in this movie as well. Now that I think about it, he might be the true highlight for me. I just want to have a friend who is exactly like his character in this movie. He also some how bags Emma Stone in the end, lucky son of a fucking bitch. But for serious, this movie is great. If you disagree, you're dumb and your opinion really doesn't matter. So fuck off.

This Is The End Review

I'm going to start this off by saying, I ended up seeing this movie a couple of weeks ago with two OTHER people. DUN DUN DUN! Dan and Josh haven't seen this yet, and with all the other movies we still need to see this summer, I figured I'd just write a nice little review for this movie. With all of that being said, lets get this shit under way.

After seeing trailers for this movie, I pretty much decided that this was going to be a must see for me. It looked like the most entertaining movie coming out in a long ass time, and boy was I right. This movie is so fucking funny. LIKE REALLY FUCKING FUNNY. It's a movie about a bunch of famous people you know, playing fictional versions of themselves. (One could argue that is basically all Seth Rogen does, but whatever.) Michael Cera is probably the biggest highlight of the first little chunk of the movie. I won't say too much about that, other than it's so much better than the trailer showed.

Another HUUUUUUGE highlight of this movie is Danny McBride. I love him in pretty much everything he does, but he was by far the best part of this movie, at least for me. Especially at a point in the movie when he and James Franco are arguing about a porno magazine. This movie also takes a comedic look at religion and moral values...and shit.So if you're into that kind of stuff, great for you!

I'll just end this quick little review by saying that you should really go see this movie. It deserves any and all praise it has received. It's well worth the trip to a theater, and you won't have to sit through 2 and a half hours of explosions in Man Of Steel! Yaaaaay. This has probably become my second favorite Judd Apatow flick, which is saying quite a lot. So check this shit out!

Movie of the Week: The Watch

"Four men who start a neighborhood watch group as a way to get out of they day-to-day family routines find themselves defending the earth from an alien invasion." IMDb

I'll be honest.  I'd never heard of this movie before.  I don't recall seeing any trailers or advertisements for it, and I'm really not even sure when it came out.  I'm sure a cursory look at IMDb would tell me, but who has that kind of time?  I do, but I don't really care.  So, with all that being said, when I stumbled upon this movie while scrolling through my OnDemand menu, I didn't really know what to expect.  I just saw the cast and figured, why not?  Could be funny.  I was mostly right.

So, I really feel like the filmmakers here didn't really care too much about what the story was gonna be.  I think they just wanted any vehicle to put these four guys in a room and have them riff about whatever for 90 minutes.  I guess the dart landed on aliens.  Anyway, the basic premise is as follows:  Ben Stiller is the manager at a Costco.  One night, one of his security guards is violently murder-splattered all over the store, and the cops don't seem to be doing much about it.  So, he decides to start a neighborhood watch to try and prevent stuff like this from happening.  He puts up flyers, and along come Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and that guy from The IT Crowd, who all join up as pretty much a means of hanging out, drinking, and tearin' shit up. Along the way, a pretty weakly thought out alien takeover plot starts to form.  Basically they figure out that the security guard was killed by aliens, and they took his skin and are hiding among us in plain sight...we better do something about this! Meh, whatever.  As I said before, I don't think they really cared what the story was about.

You can definitely pinpoint the scenes where Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill are just making shit up, as if they pretty much just hit record and said, "fuck it, say whatever you guys want!  I'm sure there will be 20 minutes here and there that will be funny!"  I notice this kind of thing now when it comes to these guys, especially with Jonah Hill.  I didn't mind it so much in movies like Knocked Up, but now he does it in pretty much everything he is in and it becomes obvious and borderline annoying.  How about we make a movie with a script?  I dunno, just a thought.

One other thing that bothered me is that early in the movie, before the security guard gets his skin ripped off, they make a point of showing you that he just got a brand new tattoo.  So, I immediately think that it will later be a decent reveal of someone being an alien...cause, ya know, the alien who's wearing the guys' skin will have that same tattoo, probably somewhere weird or upside down or whatever.  It was a clear set up with an easy payoff.  It never happened.  It's like they were gonna do it, and just forgot about it, or it got left out or something.  I guess it doesn't really matter, but it was something that stuck out to me as a misstep.

That really all I have to say about this movie.  It isn't much, but then I wasn't expecting much.  It made me laugh a few times.  There were some boobs in it at one point.  There was some silly Weekend at Bernie's-esque-alien-corpse-prop-comedy somewhere in there.  They accidentally blew up a cow, which was amusing...what else do you want from these guys really?  This was clearly just a nice paycheck for these guys, and they probably had a lot of fun making it and dickin' around with each other.  Good for them.  So if you like these actors and the line-o-rama kind of dialog they are known for, then by all means, watch the movie.  It will at least keep you occupied while you eat a couple of sandwiches and update your facebook every few minutes.